Coauthors: Shawn Zandi, Mike Yamaguchi Earlier this year we announced Project Altair, our massively scalable, next-generation data center design. We also announced our plans to build a new data center in Oregon, in order to be able to more reliably deliver our services to our members and customers. Today, we'd like to announce that our Oregon data center,...

The number of LinkedIn members across Asia Pacific has doubled over the last two years to reach more than 85 million members at the end of 2015. This growth has driven the need to expand and increase our ability to serve our members there. Since member experience and site speed are a priority for us, we knew that our regional PoPs were no longer enough. To meet...

In the last twelve months LinkedIn’s storage and processing needs have grown by 34 percent. That’s massive. And that growth is on top of the 29 megawatts of capacity in our current data centers worldwide – 26 megawatts are domestic and the other three international. We are also working to deploy applications on the nearly 6,500 servers in our Singapore data...